Finding Aid - Beaver Valley Heritage Society fonds (S724)

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Table of contents

Summary information ...... 3 Administrative history / Biographical sketch ...... 3 Scope and content ...... 3 Notes ...... 4 Access points ...... 4 Series descriptions ...... 4 1, Administrative Papers, ...... 4 2, Background Reports, ...... 5 3, Articles and Papers, ...... 6 4, Newspaper Clippings, ...... 7 5, Maps, ...... 7 6, Graphic Material, ...... 8 7, Beaver Valley Concerned Citizens’ Group, 1975 - 1982, ...... 8 8, Beaver Valley Heritage Society, 1981 -, ...... 9

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Summary information

Repository: Title: Beaver Valley Heritage Society fonds ID: S724 Date: 1975 - 2006 (date of creation) Physical description: 1.07 m of textual records 20 photographs : col. and col. slides 1 videocassette (30 min.) Dates of creation, revision and deletion:

Administrative history / Biographical sketch

Note The Beaver Valley Heritage Society began in the mid 1970s as a group of concerned citizens, and was incorporated in 1981 as a non-profit citizen's organization created to preserve and protect the natural environment of the Beaver Valley in . The Beaver Valley's territory runs through the four townships of Artemesia, Collingwood, Euphrasia and St. Vincent. It stretches over 25 miles, from Flesherton to Georgian Bay at Thornbury. The Beaver Valley Heritage Society endeavors to represent the interests of the Valley's residents and anyone who wishes to support the Society's objectives of opposing inappropriate development in the Valley. The Society supports development, provided it occurs in approved areas, and does not impact on wildlife, fishing, and the natural environment. The role of the Society is to present the views of its members in a coherent, concise and organized way to the decision- making bodies that have jurisdiction over the Beaver Valley.

Scope and content

The fonds contains the papers of a group of concerned citizens of Beaver Valley, which grew into the Beaver Valley Concerned Citizens' Group and eventually became the Beaver Valley Heritage Society. It is arranged in the following series: Administrative papers; Background reports; Articles and papers; Newspaper clippings; Maps; Graphic material; Beaver Valley Concerned Citizens’ Group; Beaver Valley Heritage Society.

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Notes

Title notes

Other notes • Publication status: Published • Accompanying material: The following items were transferred to Special Collections: The fate of the Beaver Valley : the report of a citizen’s investigation into recent decisions designed to change the designation of the Beaver Valley from a provincial resource to a site for large scale real estate development / The Beaver Valley Heritage Society, 1983 A citizen’s guide to protecting wetlands and woodlands / Nedia Gonzalez. Federation of Ontario Naturalists, 1996 Water quality and hydrology of the Beaver River / Ontario. Ministry of the Environment. Water Resources Assessment Unit, Technical Support, Southwest Region, 1983 Upper Beaver Valley area of natural and scientific interest : a reconnaissance level life science inventory / Joseph W. Johnson. Ontario. Ministry of Natural Resources, 1990 Epping Commons : a proposed resort residential development in Euphrasia Township, Grey County, Ontario / prepared on behalf of Mr. Samuel Kolber, Cambray Investments Ltd., and Maxstone Holdings Ltd. by Klein & Sears, Research/Planning/Architecture, June 1979 Beaver Valley secondary planning study : Artemesia and Euphrasia Townships. N.E.C. proposed plan presentation / prepared for the Beaver Valley Planning Board by Ecological Services for Planning Ltd., 1982 Environmental review of the proposed plan for the / Ecological Services for Planning Ltd., 1980 Hydrologic / hydrogeologic appraisal : Epping Commons development / prepared for Coalition on the Niagara Escarpment by The Lathem Group Inc., 1981 Guidebook on the preparation and submission of the expert witness’ evidence before the Ontario Environmental Assessment Board / prepared for The Ministry of the Environment by The Public Interest Advocacy Centre, 1980 Beaver Valley study, 1979 - 1982

Access points

• Beaver Valley Concerned Citizens’ Group (subject)

Series descriptions

Series 1: Administrative Papers

File / item list Ref code Title Dates Access status Container 1.1 File - Letters patent S724 Box 1 1.2 File - Promotional material S724 Box 1 1.3 File - Membership list (closed) S724 Box 1 Page 4 S724 Beaver Valley Heritage Society fonds 1.4 File - Financial (closed) S724 Box 1 Series 2: Background Reports

File / item list Ref code Title Dates Access status Container 2.1 File - Niagara Escarpment Commission S724 Box 1 brochures 2.2 File - Legislative material S724 Box 1 2.3 File - The Niagara Escarpment Plan, vol. S724 Box 1 1-3 2.4 File - Ontario’s Niagara Escarpment S724 Box 1 (Ontario, ) : implementing the biosphere reserve concept in a highly developed region / prepared at the request of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for presentation by the Niagara Escarpment Commission at the International Conference on Biosphere Reserves held in Sevilla, Spain, March 20-25, 1995 2.5 File - Draft : Environmental planning S724 Box 1 and the Niagara Escarpment : a model to copy, or to avoid? / Tom Green. Draft, 1 February, 1992 2.6 File - Grey Sauble conservation S724 Box 1 strategies / Grey Sauble Conservation Authority, 1994 2.7 File - Processing guide for Niagara S724 Box 1 Escarpment Plan amendment applications proposing to change lands from escarpment rural area to mineral resource extraction area and for provincial wayside pit/quarry applications, 1997 2.8 File - A report on the visual analysis S724 Box 1 of the Beaver Valley escarpment area / Fidenzio Salvatori, 1981 2.9 File - Planning profile, eighth edition / S724 Box 1 prepared by Cartography & Drafting Unit Operations and Development Control Branch Plans Administration Division for Ontario Ministry of Housing, 1977 2.10 File - Amendment no. 33 to the official S724 Box 1 plan of the Beaver Valley planning area / prepared for The Beaver Valley Planning Board by The Grey County Planning Department, May, 1980 2.11 File - New planning for Ontario : final S724 Box 1 report summary and recommendations / Ontario. Commission on Planning and Development Reform in Ontario, 1993

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File / item list Ref code Title Dates Access status Container 3.1 File - Energy and agriculture in Ontario / S724 Box 5 Ontario Institute of Agrologists Committee in Energy and Agriculture, 1975 3.2 File - Ontario’s conservation authorities / S724 Box 5 Ontario. Ministry of Natural Resources 3.3 File - The man who planted hope : S724 Box 5 Elzeard Bouffier, quiet, persistent and an inspiration to all who love trees / Jean Giono 3.4 File - Bighead River watershed S724 Box 5 demonstration project information update, Fall 1995 3.5 File - Muskoka stewardship project S724 Box 5 summary report, 1993-1995 / Muskoka Heritage Foundation, February 1996 3.6 File - Access : Niagara Escarpment news S724 Box 5 and notes , Spring 1995 3.7 File - Hibou : a newsletter from the S724 Box 5 Grey Sauble Conservation Foundation , vol.2.1, Spring/Summer 1996 3.8 File - The Muskoka steward. Volume 5, S724 Box 5 issue 1 - Volume 5, issue 2 3.9 File - Managing natural resources in our S724 Box 5 municipalities today : new realities - implementation of new policies / Michael Wynia 3.10 File - A tradition of conservation / Ann S724 Box 2 Guthrie 3.11 File - Grey Sauble watershed bulletin , S724 Box 2 issue 1.1, February 1996 3.12 File - Extension notes : restoring old- S724 Box 5 growth features to managed forests in southern Ontario 3.13 File - Conserving communities / Wendell S724 Box 5 Berry, 1996 3.14 File - Bill Bassett : an enduring influence S724 Box 5 on his students. Old times , winter 1984 3.15 File - The battle of Beaver Valley : is S724 Box 5 it the ‘last stand’ for protection of the Niagara Escarpment? / Lyn MacMillan. Seasons , spring 1982 3.16 File - Development opposed : wildlife S724 Box 5 sanc tuary threatened / Lew Geauvreau. Angler and hunter , August 1983

Page 6 S724 Beaver Valley Heritage Society fonds 3.17 File - Time-sharing can be a bonanza but S724 Box 5 takes financial savvy / Michael Wynston. Mortgage broker , December 1981 3.18 File - To defend the escarpment...a S724 Box 5 citizen’s gui de / Coalition on the Niagara Escarpment 3.19 File - Escarpment life : a whole different S724 Box 5 world / D.S. Larson. news , Fall 1992 3.20 File - Land stewardship : think locally / S724 Box 5 Ann Gutherie. Bruce trail news , Fall 1994 3.21 File - Reflections : encountering the S724 Box 5 countryside -1 / Tony Hiss.New Yorker , 1989 3.22 File - Early history of the Beaver Valley / S724 Box 2 C.W. Hartman. Ontario historical society 3.23 File - Beaver River / CUESTA , spring S724 Box 2 1983 3.24 File - Seasons , vol. 20, no. 2, summer S724 Box 2 1980 3.25 File - Seasons , vol. 20, no. 3, autumn S724 Box 2 1980 3.26 File - Seasons , vol. 22, no. 1, spring S724 Box 2 1982 3.27 File - Proposed development : Beaver S724 Box 2 Valley trout habitat threatened / Jim Hook. Angler and hunter , November/ December 1983 Series 4: Newspaper Clippings

File / item list Ref code Title Dates Access status Container 4.1 File - Newspaper clippings, 1978 - 1980 S724 Box 2 4.2 File - Newspaper clippings, 1981 - 1982 S724 Box 2 4.3 File - Newspaper clippings, January - S724 Box 2 June 1983 4.4 File - Newspaper clippings, July - S724 Box 2 December, 1983 4.5 File - Newspaper clippings, 1984 S724 Box 2 4.6 File - Newspaper clippings, 1989 - 1990; S724 Box 2 1992 -1995 4.7 File - Newspaper clippings, 1996 - 2001 S724 Box 3 Series 5: Maps

File / item list Ref code Title Dates Access status Container 5.1 File - Map -- Schedule B-50 : “Land use S724 Box 3 plan”. Draft

Page 7 S724 Beaver Valley Heritage Society fonds 5.2 File - Hazard Land : lots 12, 13 and 14, S724 Box 3 Concession V 5.3 File - Map 1 to Schedule B-50 : “Land S724 Box 3 use plan”. Draft 5.4 File - The Beaver Valley planning area : S724 Box 3 Beaver Valley secondary plan. 1 Study Area. Draft. May 31, 1982 5.5 File - Map 2 to Schedule B-50 : “Land S724 Box 3 use plan”. Draft 5.6 File - County of Grey, south portion, S724 Box 5 county sear - Owen Sound. Produced by Ontario Ministry of Transportation and Communications, February 4, 1977 5.7 File - Bruce, Ontario. Produced by the S724 Box 5 Army Survey Establishment, R.C.E 1959-1961 5.8 File - Niagara Escarpment plan map 6 : S724 Box 5 County of Grey 5.9 File - Ontario’s Niagara Escarpment : a S724 Box 5 World Biosphere reserve 5.10 File - S724 Box 5 5.11 File - Beaver Valley Cultural Landscape S724 Box 5 Series 6: Graphic Material

File / item list Ref code Title Dates Access status Container 6.1 File - Along the Niagara Escarpment in S724 Box 6 Bruce and Grey counties 6.2 File - Photographs S724 Box 5 6.3 File - Slides S724 Box 5 Series 7: Beaver Valley Concerned Citizens’ Group, 1975 - 1982 Scope and content: Became the Beaver Valley Heritage Society, incorporated in 1981

File / item list Ref code Title Dates Access status Container 7.1 File - General : correspondence, public S724 Box 3 involvement, newsletters 7.2 File - [number not used] 7.3 File - Beaver Valley Planning Board S724 Box 3 7.4 File - Beaver Valley Secondary Plan S724 Box 3 Study - Phase I interim report 7.5 File - Beaver Valley Study S724 Box 3 7.6 File - Chronologies S724 Box 3 7.7 File - Coalition on the Niagara S724 Box 3 Escarpment (CONE) documents and correspondence 7.8 File - Epping Commons - deeds S724 Box 3

Page 8 S724 Beaver Valley Heritage Society fonds 7.9 File - Development permit appeal - S724 Box 3 decision of the Hearing Officer 7.10 File - Document referred to in cross S724 Box 4 examination of Ecological Services for Planning Ltd. 7.11 File - Euphrasia Township S724 Box 4 7.12.1 File - Notes S724 Box 4 7.12.2 File - Proposed Amendment No.33 to the S724 Box 4 Beaver Valley Official Plan (re: Epping Commons) 7.13 File - Hearing rules of procedure S724 Box 4 7.14 File - Hearings - phase I : pertaining to S724 Box 4 Niagara Escarpment Plan review 7.15 File - Government policy and speeches S724 Box 4 7.16 File - Grey County S724 Box 4 7.17 File - Land Use S724 Box 4 7.18 File - Legal analysis S724 Box 4 7.19 File - Ministry of Natural Resources S724 Box 4 information and maps 7.20 File - Planning : Niagara Escarpment S724 Box 4 Commission publications 7.21 File - Planning area boundary and Terry S724 Box 4 Moore memo 7.22 File - Preliminary proposals S724 Box 4 7.23 File - Provincial Hansard and Mel Swart S724 Box 4 (NDP - M.P.P)’s press releases 7.24 File - Publicly owned lands S724 Box 4 7.25 File - Requests and responses re: the S724 Box 4 referral of the official plan amendment concerning Epping Commons development 7.26 File - Socio-economic issues and studies S724 Box 4 7.27 File - Subdivision applications and S724 Box 4 dispositions (other lands) 7.28 File - Talisman Ski Resort S724 Box 10 7.29 File - Tourism development strategies, S724 Box 10 capabilities Series 8: Beaver Valley Heritage Society, 1981 -

File / item list Ref code Title Dates Access status Container 8.1 File - Administrative files -- General S724 Box 5 8.2 File - Meetings : Announcement, agenda, S724 Box 5 minutes, reports 1981; 1988-1997; 1999- (incomplete) 8.3 File - Beaver River as a Heritage River S724 Box 7 8.4 File - Beaver Valley lot survey S724 Box 7 8.5 File - [number not used] 8.6 File - Briefs S724 Box 7 8.7 File - Bruce Grey Environment Coalition S724 Box 7 8.8 File - Campaigns / public meetings S724 Box 7

Page 9 S724 Beaver Valley Heritage Society fonds 8.9 File - Coalition on the Niagara S724 Box 7 Escarpment (CONE) 8.10.1 File - Correspondence, 1982-1985 S724 Box 7 8.10.2 File - Correspondence, 1989 - 1990 S724 Box 7 8.10.3 File - Correspondence, 1991 - 1997 S724 Box 7 8.11 File - Decisions - Minister S724 Box 7 8.12 File - Development permit, Alan S724 Box 8 Grossman: 1989-91 : application, correspondence, decision 8.13 File - Development proposals / appeals S724 Box 7 8.14 File - Fisheries aspect S724 Box 8 8.15 File - Forestry S724 Box 5 8.16 File - Grant applications S724 Box 5 8.17 File - Grey Association and Grey Sauble S724 Box 8 8.18 File - Grey County Official Plan S724 Box 8 8.19 File - Hearings : pertaining to Niagara S724 Box 8 Escarpment Plan review 8.20 File - Hearings - phase II : pertaining to S724 Box 8 Niagara Escarpment Plan review 8.21 File - Judicial review S724 Box 9 8.22 File - Land use S724 Box 8 8.23 File - Landscape evaluation study S724 Box 9 8.24 File - Legal S724 Box 9 8.25 File - Achievement awards : no S724 Box 9 minations McConnell, Herman 8.26 File - New Democratic Party (NDP) S724 Box 9 8.27 File - Niagara Escarpment Commission S724 Box 9 (NEC) 8.28 File - Niagara Escarpment Commission : S724 Box 9 Public Interest Advisory Committee 8.29 File - Niagara Escarpment plan S724 Box 9 8.30 File - Niagara Escarpment plan review S724 Box 9 8.31 File - Newsletter : Beaver Valley S724 Box 9 Heritage Society, 1981-200 6 (incomplete) 8.32 File - Public participation S724 Box 9 8.33 File - Submissions S724 Box 10 8.34 File - Workshops/Conferences S724 Box 9 8.35 File - Water S724 Box 9

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